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READABLE NOVELS.—The Wonderful Bishop. By Morley Roberts. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—A

series of amazing stories of London life. The hero of the first is a pugnacious Bishop.— The Noise of Life. By Christopher Stone. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—A modern story the scene of which, in spite of its title, is laid in the country. The figure of the opium-eating poet is very cleverly drawn.—A. Knight of Poland. By M. E. Carr. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—A story concerned with Poland's struggle for freedom, of which the date is in the " sixties " of the last century.—The Confessions of a Successful Wife. By G. Dorset. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—In American book dealing with a business woman who marries and reforms a drunkard